Buy the Change uses Trade for Better Lives for Women in the Developing World. Co-founder Kari Hughes invited me into the world headquarters (her home) for this interview about why they are, how they got started and why they do what they do. Buy The Change is a Certified Benefit Company (B Corp) (as is TedSarvata.com) committed to being part of the solution to the issues faced by women and girls around the world.

She mentioned a couple of books that were instrumental in her development:  Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn and Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide by Stacey Edgar.

They measure impact by how many dollars are we able to put into the hands of women in the developing world. We talked about the potential conflict between purpose and impact, the pendulum, as it were, that swings between focusing on short term benefits to their suppliers, women in the developing world, and more focus on the long term impacts, or more short-term focus on developing markets for these products. After the interview I reflected on the Duncan Berry (Fishpeople) interview on episode 30:  https://purposepodcast.com/030. Perhaps that episode will be helpful for Buy the Change. What do you think?

Contact info:

• BuyTheChangeUSA.com
• BuyTheChange on Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook
• kari@BuyTheChangeUSA.org
• TedSarvata.com
• Ted@PurposePodcast.com
• PurposeDrivesImpact.com